Shopping-bag



w. F. LAWRENCE. SHOPPING BAG.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 1920.

1,379,829, Patented May 31, 1921.

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WALTER LAWRENCE, OF MIDDLETOWN, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO RAYMOND BAG COM- PANY, OF MIDDLETOWN, OHIO, A COBPORATION'OF OHIO.

SHOPPING-BAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 1, 1920. Serial No. 393,383.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER F. LAWRENCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Middletown, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shopping-Bags,

of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formin a part of this specification.

I y invention contemplates the provision of a paper shopping bag and the prlncipal objects of the invention. are to provide an article of this class that can be economically weight. I find that the improvements of my sufficiently strong and heavy paper, the

present invention eliminate this difficulty. The bag of my invention, even when heavily laden, is no more apt to become disrupted at the handles or in the vicinity of the handles than it is aptto become disrupted at any other point.

Inthe accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective of the shopping bag of my invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary elevational view of the portion of the bag to which one of the handles is applied, a portion of the inturned flap being broken away; and

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2. m

At 4 is illustrated a paper bag of any upper edges of the bag being folded inwardly as indicated at 5. The bag handles 6-6 which are of heavy cord enter the bag through the two pairs of spaced apertures 77, the ends of the handles terminating within the bag. As will presently appear, nostrain is placed upon the paper bounding these apertures, it being the sole purpose of the apertures to permit the ends of the cord handles to be concealed, as illustrated.

Disposed under the inwardly folded flap 5 of the bag are the oppositely disposed cardboard strips 8-8. At each of its ends, each cardboard strip is provided with a section of strong woven fibrous material, indicated at 9. The woven sections 9 are conveniently of coarsely woven buckram and are glued to the strips 8 -8 on the surfaces thereof nearest 1 the inturned flap 5. The cord handles are attached to the bag and to the cardboard Patented May 31, 192

strips 8-8, and the latter are held in pos it1on under flap 5 by the staples 10 -110.

Each staple embraces a portion of a cord handle lying outside of the bag and passes through the outer layer of paper, the adjaa cent cardboard strip 8 and its buckram section 9, and through the inturned flap 5. The OXtT'GmItIGS of the staples are turned over as indicated 1n Fig. 2 to lock together the several parts through Will. a they pass. The staples are conveniently widened at the points where they'engage the cord, so that they may appear as buttons and at the same time minimize the wear on the cord which is occasioned by the contact of the cord with the staples. The herein described arrangement for attachingthe handles 6-6 to the paper bag 5 has been found to be very eifective, since the staple legs pass between the woven fibers of the buckram and hook therearound and since the buckram sections lie on the inner surfaces of the cardboard strips,

there is no possibility that any carried article insufficient to disrupt the bag itself will cause the staples to be torn out of the cardboard. Lifting strain imparted to the paper of the bag when the same and its contents are carried by the handles is evenly distributed over a substantial area, no isolated portion of the bag being subjected by the handles to an excessive strain liable to tear the same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is:

1. In combination with a paper bag folded at its upper edge to provide an inturned flap, two oppositely located spaced pairs of I apertures 1n the bag, cord handles the ends of which pass through said apertures and terminate within the bag, cardboard strips lying under said flap and provided on the surfaces thereof next adjacent said flap with sections of woven fibrous material, together with staples embracing those portions of the cord handles which he outside of the bag,

said staples extending through the paper of the bag and through the cardboard stri s and the woven material carried thereby, t e

extremities of the staples being off set so that the staples can not be withdrawn from the cardboard without drawing the woven material through the cardboard.

2. In combination with a paper bag folded at its upper end to provide an inturned flap, a cardboard strip lying under said flap, said cardboard strip provided at each end thereof with a section of woven fibrous material lying on that side of the cardboard strip next adjacent said flap, a flexible handle having portions lying outside of and against the bag, and staples embracing said portions of the handle and passing through the paper of the bag and through said cardboard strip and the woven fibrous material aforesaid.

3. In combination with a paper bag, a

I mraeae In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 14th day of June, 1920.

WALTER F. LAWRENCE.

Witnesses:

W. M. WHALEY, R0131. T. BROWN. 

